A large Chinese famille rose dish decorated with a pheasant. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a pheasant.
A large Chinese famille rose « Madame de Pompadour » teapot. Qianlong period.
Brightly enamelled to the interior with a peony medallion encircled at the rim by floral sprays and seed pods flanking cartouches alternately enclosing a fish or an eagle.
A Chinese famille rose ‘Parrot on a perch” vase after a design of Pronk. Qianlong period.
The design sometimes attributed to Cornelis Pronk and also made at Meissen, painted on both sides with a richly coloured parrot holding a sprig of cherry in its talons as he stands chained to his perch, suspended from a melon-form ornament at the neck, within blue band borders.
A Chinese famille rose teapot decorated with a boy astride a water buffalo. Yongzheng period.
Of globular form, with the concave fluted moulded panels on the cover matched on the base, which has applied aquatic plants. Decorated in famille rose enamels, with a boy on a water buffalo in a landscape, with flowers and rockwork above the fluting.
A very fine Chinese famille rose “cockerel” plate. Yongzheng period.
Brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette with a cockerel perched on pierced promontory rockwork among flowering branches of peony, surrounded at the well with a sea-green trellis-pattern band reserved with floral vignettes, the rim with four flower sprays.
A Chinese famille rose teapot decorated with Lan Tsai-Ho and her attendant. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with Lan Tsai-Ho and her attendant, diaper and peonies.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a boy holding a flowering branch. Qianlong period.
Decorated in famille verte and famille rose enamels and gold, with foliate-vine border at the edge and with a principal scene on the cover depicting a boy holding a flowering branch while astride a water buffalo next to a calf close by a stream flanked by a willow tree amongst prunus, rocks, and chrysanthemums. Ducks […]
A Chinese famille rose armorial teapot for the English Market (John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont). Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the arms of Perceval, Argent on a chief indented gules three crosses pattée of the field; with crest, A thistle erect leaved proper, and the motto”Sub crude candor”.
A Chinese famille rose bowl decorated with a couple resting after the hunt. Qianlong period.
The bowl decorated in the famille rose palette with a couple resting after the hunt in a landscape.
A Chinese famille rose eggshell tea bowl and saucer decorated with peonies. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with panels of peonies.